St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-14
AFTER 1T IS OVER.
A Few Recollections of the Recent
Presidential Visit.
LATE, BUT TOOGOOD TO LOSE
Incidents and Anecdotes of the Reeep-
tion---Humors Of rivalry.

Postmaster General Villas was asked
about the Welch case, but only smiled
and intimated that Erratic William
would come out the small end of the
horn.
Nj. f. Steele probably wonders why
the Tribune went out of its way to at
tack him. The reason was that he was
a member of the committee and Blethen
was not honOred. Every member of the
committee is a marked man at the Trib-
une Office.
The GLOBE reporter, who was the
only outsider at the private dinner
party at the West, says Mrs. Cleveland's
beauty was more pronounced than ever
when she removed her bonnet.
An incident OF the arrival of the party
at the Milwaukee depot has not been
told. Caught in the crowd at the depot
was lady with her little boy, "a blue
eyed, golden-haired cherub, of only
three years, wearing a uniform cap.
TO avoid the crowd, he was
placed upon radiator and was the
first object to catch Mrs. Cleveland's
eye when she entered. When she
looked at him, he dantily doffed his
little cap with such winning graces that
she yielded to the impulse, crossed over
and kissed him. That mother was the
happiest woman in Minneapolis.
The visit of Gen. Villas may have had
something to do with it. A dozen men
have been hard at work on the postOffice
ever since.
The Star-News made one of the best
of hits at that vlllainOuS Tribune editor
ial. The latter said that its remarks
were in perfect taste, and the Star-News
added, 80 they were, from your stand
point of blackguard.'
The residence of DR.. c. Fl. Hunter,
corner Second avenue and Ninth street,
was about the most handsomely dec
Grated in the city.
Supt. Helm and Assistant Hoy deserve
all praise for the manner in which they
held the crowds. The presidential
party noticed and cOmplimented it.
Two women on the motor were dis
cuSSing Mrs. Cleveland. One was pretty
and cynical and the other was lOquaciOus
and-well, she resembled an hour glass,
in form, and her eyes could have been
clipped off with a shingle. Il didn't
think Mrs. Cleveland was pretty" she
said. She was hardly my style" Il
guess YOU are right She was hardly
your STYLE" was the cynical rejOlner.
The fat woman wondered why every
body laughed.
When Mrs. Cleveland was about to
alight from her carriage at the West
hotel on the trip from the depot Aid.
Cooley sprang forward and gallantly
assisted her. He was not a little elated
over his achievement, especially as he
had got in ahead of Aid. c Gutter, and
when friend asked him which hand
grasped Mrs. Cleveland he excitedly
exclaimed, Both of 'em, by heavens,
both of 'em.''
John Leppla, the saloonkeeper on
Third street north, knew Cleveland be-
fore he was either governor or presi-
dent, and, determining to decorate his
building, decorated profusely. In do
ing so he got severe fail and broke his
right wrist, but as soon as it was set re-
sumed the work, and as result had
one of the handsomest decorations in
the city.
The first question Col. Lamont asked
when he arrived was, Are you going to
have a banquet?" When answered in
the negative, he devoutly exclaimed
'''rhank God"
The first man President Cleveland
shook hands with after leaving his car,
was Z. H. Moore, the veteran gateman
at the Milwaukee depot. Mr.. Moore
knew Cleveland at Buffalo, when he
was lawyer practicing with Judge
Bissel, and was an enthusiastic adj
NOIllS vi IlS lOI pI6SlUCuG
months before the Chicago convention.
The Chicago News correspondent gets
Off some pretty good matter in the fol-
lowing:
The attitude of the rivalry between the two
towns was never betterilluStrated than in the
preparations of both for The reception of the
president Every move made bv ST. Paul has
been watched with jealous suspicion by Min
neapolis, and vice versa. The st. Paul papers
went over and sneered at the decorations in
Minneapolis and the Minneapolis paper sent
reporters to st. Paul to make fun Of the
meager preparations going on there. When
the Minneapolis council heard that St Paul
was only going TO fire three salutes in honor
of Mr. Cleveland's arrival. Doc Ames, the
mayor, who is the Carter Harrison of Mime
sofa, arose and proposed that the great city
of Minneapolis should put TO shame the
niggardnesB Of the puny town of ST. Paul
and that four Salutes should be fired in honor
of President Cleyeland's arrival. The may
or motion was unanimously carried as are
all resolutions which in any way reflect upon
the state capital Then, too, when they
heard that the st. Paul people were to place
the president and his wife in the same car
riage thew declared that this would be TOO
confusing ana that they should be placed in
separate carriages SO that no confusion as to
their identity would follow. Therefore,
when the party reaches Minneapolis, Mrs
Cleveland will ride i'll Il carriage containing
a huge flag to distinguish her from her hus-
band.
OF course. great number of Minneapolis
people came over to-day to sniff at st. Paul's
display, and watch the manner i'm which it
treated its guests. MIR. Baldwin, who has
charge of the train, says switch was turned
outside of st. Paul, and the train ran half a
mile on the track UP to Minneapolis before it
was noticed. This is supposed to be IL delib-
crate attempt on the part of the people of
that town to take the president there before
he went to st. Paul.
AS the president stepped from the car to
the platform tonight Minneapolis real es-
tate man rushed up to him with the diagram
of lot of subdivided blocks which he in
formed Mr.. Cleveland could be had cheaper
than anything he could find in ST. Paul. He
did not effect a sale, although he importuned
both Villas and Col. Lamont. When last seen
he was trying to work off a corner lot on the
negro porter in exchange for peep at the
presidents train. Other real estate agents
and merchants from the other town had men
line of march, whence they scattered circu-
lars clarifying Minneapolis at the expense of
st. Paul.
At the Ryan tonight Mr.. Bissell was
handed a telegraphic message by boy who